Chapter 11 Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.” Beethoven“We had been working on her variation of Beethoven’s String Quartet no. 15 in A Minor. " Oliver Twist “Tell me how you got in.”
She rolled her eyes. “I read Oliver Twist.”
“Say what? And he picks locks?" yellow legal pad “Dad sent me to one of the larger storage rooms and left me on my own with a yellow legal pad and a pen. " new-fangled“We’ve been doing it the old-fashioned way. We need to step it up and make more Supplements the new-fangled way."
Literary Devices such a little freakdidn't see any harmwent to all this troubleseemed out of place "Everything had to be accounted for. Every jar of pickles. Every bottle of laundry detergent. Every box of feminine hygiene products. Lovely.” “Dad seemed like he’d actually listened to me. So I offered up an olive branch.” “There were leading tones on the strong beat, and then there were quiet, slower half notes that felt mysterious, almost sinister. Not a picker upper, by any means.”
“Plastic bags of Jack Link’s. Lots of them. .... I might be holding an important find. The wrapper crinkled as I bit off a hunk of jerky. A bit past its prime. But still tasty. Still meat.” “I didn’t know where his reasoning was headed. Or maybe I didn’t want to admit it. My mind was so clouded that I missed his next few words.” “As she set the hot fresh bread on the cooling rack, the funny-smelling bread that no one but Dad would eat, I could tell what was running through her mind.”
“Dad kept on. “It would be a true experiment, since no one has done it before. But think, if I could pull it off …” He grinned. “I could patent the process and it could be used for generations.”
“...tell us when the food will run out?”... “About a year before the fifteen years are up. Depending on the hydroponics, of course." He could have been giving us the weather report.”
“I wanted so much for my children. For a while you had it all. Good schools, everything you could want to make a great childhood. And I was happy.” “My parents and the life they made together. Not perfect, but strong nonetheless. It was not pleasant to find out the foundation of your house had dry rot."
Chapter 11
Allusions and other References
All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”
Oliver Twist
“Tell me how you got in.”
She rolled her eyes. “I read Oliver Twist.”
“Say what? And he picks locks?"
yellow legal pad
“Dad sent me to one of the larger storage rooms and left me on my own with a yellow legal pad and a pen. "
new-fangled
Vocabulary and Concepts
junk foodpicks lockscloningedible/inedibleforced laughbonded through the musicmiscalculated
Literary Devices
such a little freakdidn't see any harmwent to all this troubleseemed out of place
"Everything had to be accounted for. Every jar of pickles. Every bottle of laundry detergent. Every box of feminine hygiene products. Lovely.”
“Dad seemed like he’d actually listened to me. So I offered up an olive branch.”
“There were leading tones on the strong beat, and then there were quiet, slower half notes that felt mysterious, almost sinister. Not a picker upper, by any means.”
“Plastic bags of Jack Link’s. Lots of them. .... I might be holding an important find. The wrapper crinkled as I bit off a hunk of jerky. A bit past its prime. But still tasty. Still meat.”
“I didn’t know where his reasoning was headed. Or maybe I didn’t want to admit it. My mind was so clouded that I missed his next few words.”
“As she set the hot fresh bread on the cooling rack, the funny-smelling bread that no one but Dad would eat, I could tell what was running through her mind.”
“Dad kept on. “It would be a true experiment, since no one has done it before. But think, if I could pull it off …” He grinned. “I could patent the process and it could be used for generations.”
“...tell us when the food will run out?”... “About a year before the fifteen years are up. Depending on the hydroponics, of course." He could have been giving us the weather report.”
“I wanted so much for my children. For a while you had it all. Good schools, everything you could want to make a great childhood. And I was happy.”
“My parents and the life they made together. Not perfect, but strong nonetheless. It was not pleasant to find out the foundation of your house had dry rot."